Print Culture History in Modern America – serie

A literary, social and ethical history of book censorship in the USA. The first edition documented censorship from the 1870s to the 1930s. This second edition includes two new chapters that carry this history forward to the beginning of the 21st century.

Libraries - public, school, and academic - are ubiquitous cultural agencies. Yet how much do we know about the multiple ways that they serve and enrich our culture? These essays explore the role of the library in the life of the reader and the library as a place in the life of its users.

Women readers, editors, librarians, authors, journalists, booksellers, and others are the subjects in this stimulating new collection on modern print culture. The essays feature women like Marie Mason Potts, editor of ""Smoke Signals"", a mid-twentieth century periodical of the Federated Indians of California; Lois Waisbrooker, publisher of books and journals on female sexuality and women's rights in the decades after the Civil War; and Elizabeth Jordan, author of two novels and editor of ""Harper's Bazaar"" from 1900 to 1913. The volume presents a complex and engaging picture of print culture and of the forces that affected women's lives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book presents the most comprehensive account of the women who, as librarians, editors, and founders of the ""Horn Book"", shaped the modern children's book industry between 1919 and 1939. The lives of Anne Carroll Moore, Alice Jordan, Louise Seaman Bechtel, May Massee, Bertha Mahony Miller, and Elinor Whitney Field open up for readers the world of female professionalization. What emerges is a vivid illustration of some of the cultural debates of the time, including concerns about ""good reading"" for children and about women's negotiations between domesticity and participation in the paid labor force and the costs and payoffs of professional life.